Tita gave up playing this WC because he didnt want to play as RMF anymore. Same reason he left Flamengo. He was a typical number 10.
Falcão came later to play the WC, he wasn't together with the team during the qualifies and preparation. In order to accomodate the 4 world class players in the midfield, Telê changed the main structure of the team, which was formed by Cerezo, Socrates and Zico, a right midfielder and a left winger.
With the presence of Falcão and Cerezo together against Scotland (Cerezo was suspended against CCCP), the NT didnt have any proper RMF. So, the instructions were to have Cerezo, Falcao, Socrates and Zico alternating on the RMF (mainly Socrates and Zico).
Zico was pissed because, during the 1st half, he did the RMF almost all the time and the others didnt alternate it as prior agreed. He even proposed to leave the match to give space to Paulo Isidoro do it, but he was convinced by the others to stay.
On the 2nd half everybody participated alternating the right side. Since that, the teamwork started to flow and the right side became a surprise powerful weapon with a lot of overlaps during the whole WC.Statistics: Posted by Bola Clássica — Sat Jun 18, 2022 5:08 pm
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